W. J. Sidis

Was a classmate of R. Buckminster Fuller. Was treated as a “sinister” genius when young, receiving bad publicity and press. Could read The New York Times at age 1.5 and invented his own language, Vendergood. Attended Harvard in 1909, setting a record as youngest enrolled student there (graduated cum laude 1914). Father was Dr. Boris Sidis, MD, important early psychologist.

Sidis had a special connection with the Wampum — he wrote on and studied the history of North America and had an apparent “mystical relationship” (scroll down) with these Indians, in particular the liberty-loving Okamakammesset tribe in ancient New England.

Books and writings

Sidis’ actual writings can be difficult to obtain.

Book of Vendergood describes the language invented by Sidis. Book written when Sidis was eight.

The Animate and the Inanimate is a book about cosmology and astrophysics and has been called “a devastating blow to the Big Bang theory.” In 1979, this book received high praise and endorsement from Bucky Fuller. First edition is exceedingly rare.